Chapter 194: Funeral
Zhang Xu, who returned to the villa and slept for a while, sat at the dining table in the dining room, eating cheese and seafood baked rice that I didn't know if it should be breakfast or lunch.
Around the table, in addition to Fleur, there were Tonya who came with Gabrielle, and Scarlet, who came by to eat.
Not long after Zhang Xu and the others came back in the early morning, Dumbledore sent a message to Zhang Xu and the others to find Sirius Black after lunch today.
The rest of the day was nothing to do with Fleur, so Zhang Xu asked her to play with Gabrielle, and he and Scarlet went to find Dumbledore and Blake.
After eating and drinking, Zhang Xu and Scarlet left the villa together and walked towards Blake and Lupin's residence in Hogsmeade.
Hogmodri had a property that originally belonged to the Black family, and Sirius Black later gave it to Lupin as the office of the "Werewolf Care Society". Now Lupin and Blake, who works at Hogwarts at Hogsmeade's medical facility, usually live here, and Harry usually comes here to find Lupin and Blake during Hogsmeade.
Halfway through, Zhang Xu and the others met an angry Harry, as well as Ron and Hermione, and the latter two did not look very good.
After everyone greeted each other, Zhang Xu learned the reason for the incident from Harry and Ron's words and me.
Speaking of this, Zhang Xu has to carry a small pot, but most of it is still Harry's life.
Harry's trio had just come to Hogsmeade after lunch, and then they met the Malfoy trio on the lawn outside the castle.
The next step is the daily quarrel and the rod pulling.
According to Zhang Xu and Dumbledore's plan, then Snape should be on the scene for a daily stretch, and then Harry would be punished for accompanying him every night.
Just as Snape was thinking about how to "love" Harry's classmates at night, and walked towards the scene of the fight between Harry and Malfoy, Snape suddenly saw Malfoy flying, as if an invisible hand grabbed Malfoy's ankle and lifted him into the air.
Harry, who had learned the "Upside-Down Admiralty" with Black a while ago, applied the spell to Malfoy's body today.
Fortunately, it's still February and the weather is still cold, and Malfoy is still wearing trousers under his robes, otherwise Pony would be gone today.
Snape, who was reminded of the unpleasant memories of the scene in front of him, immediately stepped forward and punished Harry severely.
For the next week, every day after dinner, Harry would be working with the entrails of various animals in Snape's office.
Zhang Xu shrugged his shoulders, it's good to get used to this kind of thing.
When the group arrived at the house where Black and the others lived, Harry knocked on the door, and the door opened automatically.
As soon as they walked in the door, they heard the sound of a man crying in the direction of the living room.
In the living room, the remains of Regulus, covered with a white cloth, were placed in front of the fireplace.
Sitting on the couch, Blake was clutching the parchment that Regulus had written to Voldemort in one hand, and was crying quietly with the other covering his face.
Lupin sat beside Blake, comforting him from time to time.
Dumbledore sat on another couch.
After Zhang Xu and the others came to the living room, Harry sat down next to Blake, and the others also found their own places to sit.
After feeling that someone had entered the living room, Bright raised his head, looked at the few people present with bloodshot eyes, and then said to Zhang Xu and Scarlett, "Thank you." ”
Dumbledore had already told Black what had happened last night.
Blake learned that it was Scarlett who found Regulus in the group of corpses, and then Zhang Xu rushed into the group of corpses and snatched Regulus out.
Zhang Xu asked Blake to mourn and waited for Dumbledore to say something.
Everyone came, but Dumbledore saw that Black's state was no longer suitable for talking about things today, so he proposed to take Regulus's body to the Black family cemetery for burial.
Regulus's funeral took place in a hurry and was simple.
Lupin and Zhang Xu went to a coffin shop on the corner of Diagon Alley to buy the most expensive coffin in the store, put it in Zhang Xu's treasure bag, and took it to the Black family's cemetery through Lupin's apparition.
Next to the entrance of the Black family cemetery, there is a small stone house, which is used for funeral ceremonies.
Dumbledore and the others, who arrived first, cleaned the Great Hall briefly, and Regulus's body was placed on a table in the center of the Great Hall.
In the auditorium, Zhang Xu saw Kreacher, the house-elf of the Black family, who was wounded and bleeding from his forehead.
Kreacher was sitting on a bench in the Great Hall, and Hermione was bandaging his wounds.
Dumbledore and the others sat on the other benches, their expressions very heavy.
When Zhang Xu and Lupin went to Diagon Alley to buy coffins, after Dumbledore and the others came to the auditorium of the cemetery, Black called Kreacher.
When Kreacher saw Regulus's body, he cried like crazy and slammed his head on the table.
After Blake stopped Kreacher's self-harm, Kreacher spoke out about what happened more than a decade ago.
It was a story of a man who would be silent and a woman would cry when she heard it.
For years, Black thought his brother was a stupid idiot, and was killed by Voldemort directly or indirectly when he finally wanted to quit the Death Eaters out of fear.
What is unexpected is that this stupid younger brother, who was stupid in the eyes of his elder brother, made such a heroic move at the last moment of his life, and finally gave his life for it.
After placing the coffin, Zhang Xu sat next to Scarlett.
Blake was relaying to Lupin what he knew from Kreacher, mixed with some past stories about the two brothers.
It's one thing to know one thing from the "plot", but it's another to hear the beginning and end of something from the person's story, especially when you know more things that others don't know.
Among the few people present, Zhang Xu, Scarlett and Dumbledore knew that Regulus still had a chance of life back then.
On the island in the middle of the lake where Voldemort placed his Horcruxes, potions poison the undead, and house-elves can use apparition.
Regulus, who had drunk the green potion at the time, could have allowed Kreacher to take himself and the Horcruxes with him, and then find a place to heal himself.
But Regulus didn't, knowing that if he did, the Black family would be wrath of Voldemort.
So he chose to sacrifice himself at the last minute.
After Blake calmed down, he and Lupin put Regulus in the coffin and went to the cemetery.
At sunset, the wizards quickly dug the tomb with magic.
After Regulus's coffin was lowered into the tomb, the earth was quickly backfilled, and a new tomb was built.
In front of the grave, a tombstone made by Dumbledore himself was erected, which read, "Here lies a brave warrior".
The mourners stood in front of the tombstone, silently listening to Dumbledore standing next to the tombstone and reading the eulogy in a deep voice.
At this time, Zhang Xu's mind remembered a sentence that Lu Xun once said.
"In the pale red blood, the survivors will see a faint hope; A real warrior will move forward more vigorously. ”